San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-15
FASHION POINTS.
Bustles grow smaller,

Bustles grow smaller.
Myrtle leaves are mixed with orange
blossoms in bridal wreaths.
Lustrous light weight mohairs are
again used for travelling dresses.
Very small ornamental-headed pins
are much used for dress purposes.
Detachable collars and cuffs Of velvet
and velveteen are worn with wash
frocks.
The belted blouse waist is the style
for wash frOGks in this midsummer
weather.
The immense variety in parasolts
one of the prettiest features of this sc
sons fashions. h
White dress fabrics of al kinds, bu
especially white wash goods, are IN de.
mand just now.
The fSvOrIte pin and breach of the
Partisan woman is OrnamGnted with one
or several dogs heads.
Even the gauntlets of long gloves are
dotted and barred in some cases to match
the toilet this season.
Small bOnnets and tiny toques and
turbans and very large DlrectOire hats
are the favOrites in millinery this sum-
mer.
Two colors that actually swear at
each other when worn in the same toilet
in this not weather are heliotrOpe and
red.
Magnificently 8ce-cOVered and rib
bon and flOwer-trimmed parasols are
used with dressy lace and other hand
some summer toilets.
Lsrge artificial butterflies. made Of
gauze of feathers and tinsel, with tiny
jewelled eyes and penCiled wings, are
pretty worn in the hair on drrssy OGca-
siODs. =
Large flats of lace, white and cream
colored, made up of lace flOunces over
white milltnet frames, make the coolest
and most becoming of all summer hats.
A lace fiat requires no trimming, but
two or three large roses or lows OF tint
ed ribbon under the brim give the dash
OF color and the suggestion OF ornamen-
| tatiOn needed.
The favOrlte cOlOrs for dressy lace and
crepe lisse and silk muslin, tulle, and
point d'esprit collars and plastrOns are
pale rose, blue, heliOtrope, scarlet, yell
low, and black, but no white.
O,d-fashiOned berege is revived among
fashionable fabrics, and it is as pretty as
ever, or prettier, for it comes in finer
grrdes, resembling fine mOusselin de
laine in texture more than wooden
gauZe.
There ia at the moment a revival of
the Sara Bernnardt style of dressing
loose skirts falling in soft arrangements,
not too vOluminOus, rather than pulled
out petticOats overloaded with draper
les.
Ostrich feather fans, in the form Of a
Tyre, are composed of three or four long
plumes, some fluffy marabouts, and an
aigrette. The stick handle is of ivory,
carved wood, coral. or malachite, imita-
tiOn or real.
The pOmpadOur style of hair is in
favor, but not for young faces. In
dressing the hair black hairpins are no
longer used; gilded pins, large and
small ones of blonde tOrtOise-shell take
the place of them.
There is quite an effort to pOpularize
leg OF mutton and bishops sleeves, but
the tight coat sleeve, in one or another
form, holds its place among fashionable
and Questionable people, but nowadays
1t is not tight, but loose above the
elbow.
A new fabric Tor summer frOcks for
country wear is tOile d'Irlaude, kind
Ofrustic fabric with idyllic, fanciful pat
terms, Vatican shepherds and shepherd
esses, Louis XIV lords and ladies 10 wigs
and paniers, cherubs in clouds, cupids
among flowers, bees, birds, and butter
flies, and bouquets. all IN soft, uDobtru-
sive tints, on beige and cream grounds.
Stripes, dots and plaids are also seen on
the tOile d'Irlande.
The punishment of CapOul, the tenor,
for an assault on N. StOulliZ, musical
critic, is of more than passing interest.
1t is, we believe. the first instance where
an outrage of this sort in France has
been submitted to the courts instead OF
to the arbitrament Of a duel CapouPs
attack on NJ. StOulliZ was cOWardly, for
the latter lie small man and physically
weak. He, however, promptly ch8l-
lenged the tenor, but his seconds, both
of whom were journalists, declared
CapouI to be beneath recognition in this
way, and urged their principal, in the
interest of their common profession, to
bring the matter before the courts,
which was done, and the rOwdy singer
was sentenced to fine and imprisOn-
ment, nominal in amount, but sufficient
TO establish the legal immunity Of critics